Capitalization

Capitalization is necessary to make text more readable. Capital letters are used to signal proper nouns and other functions such as titles of books and poems.

Do you know the following capitalization rules?

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• Use a capital letter for the first word of a sentence

• Use capitals for all proper nouns

• Use capitals correctly within titles and headings

• Use capitals for particular functions: emphasis, key information, voice

• Use complex capitalization such as abbreviations and within quotation marks

• Use capitalization correctly in interrupted dialogue